Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Entertainment Winnipeg free press january Page 18 Chuck features editor Beck displays ability to Dodge sensationalism by Bruce Britt los Angeles daily news los Angeles Twenty years after the Yar Birds its legend still re sounds through the Halls of pop music one of countless British Rock bands reinventing american blues and during the the Yard Birds launched the spectacular Ca Reers of three Rock guitar Gen Jimmy Page and Jeff As guitarist for Clapton drove guitar enthusiasts to such delirium that Clapton is god ban ners began springing up at the bands establishing led Zeppelin in Page forged a wrathful new sound pundits later dubbed heavy by Becks Solo the 1968 album seemed though the guitarists first albums featured a the unknown Singer named Rod Becks initial recordings were less than revela in the years he has not enjoyed the widespread popular Ity of either Clapton or style admired Beck in Many emerged As the guitarist with the most consistently admired style of the Yar Birds an artist whose current work is Analysed and revered As worship fully As his that is no Small feat in this Day of Roc guitar Page and Clapton recent Solo efforts have not been greeted As even More has been Becks uncanny ability to Dodge if the guitarists biography was written it would feature few sensuous or tawdry just musical i could never Bear the thought of being a so called Rock Beck if you get on that carnival you can expect to be thrown off when it stay that always been the name of the game for after a spate of uneven record during which he explored jazz Rock fusion to the delights of an admiring cult but the distaste of the hard rocking Beck has re turned to form with a critically acclaimed epic records Jeff Becks guitar dose of humor Beck and his new band Are in the midst of a tour with guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan As their opening delivering Funk and bal lads with hard rocking Beck has come up with an Effort that also features a Strong dose of the albums title tune is a Case in while Beck wrings tortured sounds from his a smarmy huckster describes the ultimate dream guitar till till till the humor on the album has to do with the interaction Between the musicians in the the spontaneity that was transmitted Between the three of us was i told them they could do anything they and it became an Environ ment completely unshackled by any musical Beck Becks current band consists of former missing persons drummer Leader Terry Bozzio and keyboardist Tony Tony is a musician in the truest sense of the Hes like a pad for me and Terry to launch off his role in the band is to provide color and its almost like having an orchestra behind theres no cracks in the paint with this theres no Iqbal no bad no worrying about who writes what music holds us Beck Beck was bom in a South London suburb the guitarist said reeked with French radio broadcasts introduced Beck to influences like jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and bluesman big Bill the Yar Birds discovered who was then attending the Wimble Don College of playing in a London Eric Clapton had just left the citing creative differ Beck joined the Yar Birds just As the bands breakthrough for your was scaling the pop i had the task of promoting that and i didst mind in the Beck it was the biggest jump of my i was actually in a band that was getting some Becks Yar Birds stint ended abruptly when the band embarked on a gruelling american rather than subject himself to months on the the guitarist remained in where he per formed in he eventually formed a band with bassist Ron Wood currently guitarist for the rolling stones and drummer Mick seeking a frontman to Complete the Beck up Rod who reportedly was unhappy with his situation in a band called steam he was just sitting there in this club moping Over a Beck i heard him sing and it was this Guy is re hot i asked him to join and that was it was the Jeff Beck the band that launched stewarts career and established Beck As a music the songs flowed out so it was Beck i would come up with the music and the and Rod would return later with these great since the band was basically a there was no room for Messing we had to hit where it Hurt All the or the whole thing would have fallen things fell apart anyway when Stewart and Wood left the band to form Becks next plan was to Combine motown melodies with a hard Rock the resulting Only released two Soso albums before in Beck joined with Rock virtuosos Tim Bogert and Carmine both formerly of Vanilla adopting the name Bogart and the band was among several hard Rock super groups of the melodic fragments the bands second never saw the Light of and Bra Dis banded in Beck then retreated to the studio with former beatles producer George Martin and Only one completed tune an elegant Ballad titled Diamond dust and me Lodic fragments he hoped would gel during finally emerging from the studio in Beck named the resulting album blow by this record along with Becks 1976 wired is considered a jazz fusion theres nothing left for to prove in the Musk except being Happy with what i jumps Back on charts or fatigue took their toll on acclaimed musician by Paul Grein entertainment news service he Spring of 1986 should have been the Best time in Quincy Joness the Veteran producer had just won three grammy awards for supervising the megabit we Are the and was set to head Back into the studio with Michael Jackson to record their followup to the bestselling album of All barbra Streisand and Lionel Richie were eager to have Jones produce their next and film studios were calling in the Wake of Joness Success with the color purple which he both scored and but Joness memories of that period Are anything but his 12year marriage to actress Peggy Lipton was his Mother inlaw was dying of and he was suffering from exhaustion and at one i was experiencing about seven of the top 10 stress Jones said exhausted it All hit in such a strange he sitting in the living room of his Belair we had overworked on the color so i had blown my adrenal i was and when you go through a divorce and get thrown out of your you lose All those symbols of your when you have that Many things pulling you you have to change things around and take control of your Joness first step was to postpone All work his second was to go to where he spent a month trying to sort things the breakdown and recuperation left feeling stronger than it feels like the Best thing that Ever happened to said whose first album in eight Back on the was released late last with so much Success and everything else zooming All around sometimes you need god to just slap you and lets take a look and see whats going on its like when i had the brain the reference was to Joness two near fatal 1974 neural which he has Long credited with putting his life in Only contemporary figure known primarily As a producer whose own albums consistently become Joness last the reached the top 10 and was nominated for a grammy As the Best album of expectations Are High for the new collection and its first a soulful remake by Ray Charles and Chaka Khan of ill be Good to one Flop even Joness one conspicuous Flop the 1978 film version of the musical the Wiz had a big Silver the experience gave Jones a Chance to work for the first time with Michael 7 was experiencing about seven of the top 10 stress things always seem to work out for the Best for Quincy the Seattle who is beginning his fifth decade in the music has had a charmed he evolved from his 60s role As the preeminent Black he was the first Black vice president of a major pop record and the first Black musician to reach the top rung of film scorers to his current standing As the most successful and most highly regarded music producer of the produce the decades bestselling i album thriller and bestselling single we Are the Hes the Only person to win the grammy for producer of the year and Jones is the Jackson who was just then starting to look for a producer for his first Solo album As an adult Jones got the and went on to produce Jacksons next three which have sold a combined total of 70 million copies a Quick glance around Joness music room suggests the level of esteem in which he is held in the music there Are the awards an emmy for the landmark to miniseries which he and a National trustees award from the National Academy of recording arts most theres a framed copy of the Sheet music for we Are the world which was autographed by most of the Allstar cast that Jones assembled that night four years thanks for All the great wrote Bob no one else in the world could have pulled this said Kenny thanks for a wonderful wrote Bette still fit and compact at attributes his Success to his refusal to be i hate he i think they demean it tells you that you dont have the capacity to grow that youre a Mon minded Ive been a victim of that a lot even in film people would of Hes a great suspense so i would do All comedies for a while just to stay away from Jones has no shortage of projects in the among them o voices of a weekly to talk show featuring the Jesse Little Guy Jones and to Veteran Van Gordon Sauter Are co executive producers of the which Jones describes As basically about the Little Guy the d dance theatre of a Broadway show based on the famed Ballet company of the same d a movie in which Jones will act with his longtime Friend Marlon after Jones Hopes to direct using the knowledge he gained watching Steven Spielberg on the set of the color theres nothing left for me to prove in the music business except being Happy with what i says i like that feeling not having to worry about getting old in a Young mans Giblock affects freeway los Angeles a a new traffic headache is in store for Southern Calico Means a that what happens when state transportation officials close a free Way so a film Crew can shoot a Mel Gibson this six Kilometres of the terminal Island freeway were closed closed for filming of air an action movie in which Gibson and Robert Downey play pilots for the Cias secret motorists wont get a glimpse of the Star of the mad Max and lethal weapon films in Exchange for the Hes not even going to be said Margie a spokesman for the California transportation its just extraneous shots there going to so we dont want Gawker and that Type of Becks current work is As admired As his first percussion perfection Beverley percussion Canadian composer Larysa Kuzmenko will be in attendance4 when miss Johnston premieres her Cun Curtino Lor vibraphone Marin Obj in 9 january 1cj90 at hotel fort Provencher room Tikili at Jih Mcnall Robinson Bookie Vileis or cos ticket line 7037377 sponsored by Canadian motorways an Simon music director Chi Outor Motr a free press jets scramble word he y kid5 tickets can you unscramble the name of this jets hockey player if you can unscramble the name of the above jets hockey you could win a pair of jets hockey simply Cut out the fill in the form and mail 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